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...budget. But they make no attempt to work out a unified position, and their organization is the loosest on Capitol Hill: the forum has no chairman, no staff, no offices, not even any set schedule for meeting. When a member wants a meeting, he notifies Charles Stenholm, a cotton farmer from Texas who has been designated "coordinator." At the meetings, members simply talk and break up without taking any nose counts...
...seigneurial cant to romanticize work that is truly detestable and destructive to workers. But misery and drudgery are always comparative. Despite the sometimes nostalgic haze around their images, the pre-industrial peasant and the 19th century American farmer did brutish work far harder than the assembly line. The untouchable who sweeps excrement in the streets of Bombay would react with blank incomprehension to the malaise of some $17-an-hour workers on a Chrysler assembly line. The Indian, after all, has passed from "alienation" into a degradation that is almost mystical. In Nicaragua, the average 19-year-old peasant...
...from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten by a neighbor's dogs. In Macedonia, Kevin Zook, 14, was mauled to death by a local farmer's four dogs after he ran out of gas while motorcycling on a country road. Says a Royalton mother: "There are streets you can't walk down any more because of dog attacks...
...wife Julia, the daughter of a Missouri country gentleman, and their two small boys. Depression led to drink, but it was the loneliness, not liquor, that prompted him to resign his commission. Working his father-in-law's land near St. Louis, he failed as a farmer; moving to town, he came to grief as a rent collector...
DIED. William Henry Vanderbilt, 79, farmer-philanthropist and sometime politician who served as Governor of Rhode Island from 1938 to 1940 and was the great-great-grandson of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, the 19th century railroad magnate; of cancer; in Williamstown, Mass...